Word: wining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...golf injury so painful that he is unable to attend his-infamous dinner, Bronchant is stuck at home with a Pignon who insists on "helping" him. Unwittingly, Pignon manages to unravel almost every part of Bronchant's chic life, from his wife and mistress to his furnishings and fine wine. Yet the farce never becomes a simple enactment of poetic justice; no matter how much Veber paints Pignon as a really likeable, sweet guy who makes matchstick models of famous monuments such as the Eiffel Tower to numb his broken heart, he remains the idiot. All the misadventures he causes...
...true nature is revealed as well. Despite his snide comments and apparent dislike of Pignon, Bronchant still needs his "idiot" to help him out, whether by physically carrying him up the stairs or making phone calls. At one point, Bronchant reveals that the reason he only has expensive wines in his home is because he worked very hard his whole life so that he doesn't have to drink cheap wine. Therefore the audience sees through the upper-bourgeois crust that hides Bronchant's low upbringing just as Pignon's idiocy never obscures his human qualities...
...WINE...
WHAT TO DO Alcohol in excess is still bad for you but a glass of wine with dinner is probably fine for nonalcoholics...
...reopening had also been slowed by a management dispute between Murray and the restaurant's former chef. The chef--who Murray said prevented the store from starting business again by taking equipment from the building and refusing to work--has been replaced by Ralph Kelly, a chef and former wine steward originally from San Francisco, Calif...